I just reread my post.

I will comment on the enclosures. The plants inside are protected from the deer. The deer are starving because there is nothing to eat.

The reason there is nothing to eat is because the canopy won't let anything grow fast enough to supply the deer with something to eat.


Here's an experiment to try:

Take an area and enclose it

Then take an area just out side the fence and timber the heck out of it.

Come back in 3years and see which area has more regrowth.


My money is on the area that was timbered, even with the starving deer eating at it.

Which area is your money on?